Decolonial Aesthetics: Feminist Responses to Occupation

Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Department of Performance Studies, Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, Hagop Kevorkian Center NYU, NYU Departmnet of Social & Cultural Analysis, and South Asia at NYU.

This roundtable places in conversation feminist scholars, artists, and activists broadly engaged in the project of decolonial aesthetics in the context of military occupation in Kashmir and Palestine. We seek to think through the resonances between these two sites both in terms of regimes of violence and dispossession, but also in terms of modes of resistance, particularly in the form of poetry and performance as responses to state terror.

This event is free & open to the public.

Featured participants:

Sameetah Agha, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute

Layal Ftouni, CSGS Visiting Scholar & Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Samar Haddad King, Founding and Artistic Director, Yaa Samar! Dance Theater 

Ather Zia, Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder